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The Monkey Jump is a large knight's move from the second to the first line. Similar to that is the Knight's move to a, which makes a Small Monkey Jump.

It is normally a big endgame move: You use an open skirt to run under your opponent's group to reduce her potential territory.

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A graphical go client is not included. To play against GNU Go on your computer you should therefore also install a GUI capable of running GNU Go. Alternatively you could use the text-based ASCII or the [ext] GNU Emacs user interface.

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